Poky

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Poky \Pok"y\, a. [Written also pokey.]
     1. Confined; cramped. [Prov. Eng.]
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     2. Dull; tedious; uninteresting. [Colloq.]
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  poky
       adj 1: wasting time [syn: {dilatory}, {laggard}, {pokey}]
       2: small and remote and insignificant; "a jerkwater college";
          "passed a series of poky little one-horse towns" [syn: {jerkwater},
           {one-horse}, {pokey}]
       [also: {pokiest}, {pokier}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  230 Moby Thesaurus words for "poky":
     abject, abominable, ambling, arid, arrant, atrocious, banausic,
     barren, base, beat-up, bedraggled, beggarly, blah, blank,
     bloodless, blowzy, careless, cautious, characterless, cheesy,
     chintzy, circumspect, claudicant, cold, colorless, contemptible,
     cramped, crawling, creeping, creeping like snail, crummy, dead,
     debased, degraded, deliberate, depraved, despicable, dilapidated,
     dim, dinky, dirty, disgusting, dismal, drabbletailed, draggled,
     draggletailed, draggy, drearisome, dreary, dry, dryasdust, dull,
     dusty, easy, effete, elephantine, empty, etiolated, execrable,
     exiguous, fade, faltering, flagging, flagrant, flat, foot-dragging,
     foul, frowzy, frumpish, frumpy, fulsome, gentle, gradual, grave,
     gross, grubby, half-pint, halting, heavy, heinous, ho-hum, hobbled,
     hobbling, hollow, humdrum, idle, in rags, inane, indolent,
     inexcitable, informal, insipid, jejune, jerkwater, knee-high,
     languid, languorous, lazy, leaden, leisurely, lifeless, limited,
     limping, little, loose, low, low-down, low-spirited, lumbering,
     lumpen, mangy, mean, measly, messy, miserable, moderate, monotone,
     monotonous, monstrous, mussy, nefarious, negligent, niggling,
     obnoxious, odious, one-horse, pale, pallid, paltry, pedestrian,
     petite, pettifogging, petty, picayune, picayunish, piddling,
     piffling, pindling, pint-sized, plodding, pointless, poking,
     ponderous, poor, punk, puny, ragged, raggedy, rank, relaxed,
     reluctant, reptilian, ruinous, sauntering, scabby, scraggly,
     scrubby, scruffy, scummy, scurvy, seedy, shabby, shoddy, short,
     shuffling, slack, slatternly, slight, slipshod, sloppy, slothful,
     slovenly, slow, slow as death, slow as molasses, slow as slow,
     slow-crawling, slow-foot, slow-going, slow-legged, slow-moving,
     slow-paced, slow-poky, slow-running, slow-sailing, slow-stepped,
     sluggish, sluttish, small, small-beer, small-time, smallish,
     snail-paced, snaillike, solemn, sordid, spiritless, squalid,
     staggering, sterile, stiff, stodgy, strolling, stuffy, superficial,
     tacky, tasteless, tattered, tedious, tentative, tinhorn, toddling,
     tortoiselike, tottering, trudging, turtlelike, two-bit,
     two-by-four, unhurried, unkempt, unlively, unmentionable, unneat,
     unsightly, untidy, vapid, vile, waddling, wooden, wretched